Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form. Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.

Overview

This Markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of all the Markdown syntax elements. A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.

• Heading

  To create a heading, add number signs # in front of a word or phrase. The number of number signs you use should correspond to the heading level. For example, to create a heading level three <h3>, use three number signs (e.g., ### My Header).

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
### Heading 4

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• Emphasis

  1. Bold
  2. Italic

• Bold

  We can change the text style to bold using two asterisk or two underscore before and after the text we want to look bold i.e.

Make it **Bold**
Another one __Bold__

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• Italic

  We can change the text style to italic using one asterisk or one underscore before and after the text we want to look italic i.e.

*Make it italic*
_Another one italic_

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• Strike-through

  We can apply the strike through style by using two tilde sign before and after the text we want to strike through i.e.

~~700~~ 650 only

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• Block quotes

  To create a blockquote, add a >in front of a paragraph.

> Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle.

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Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle.

• Lists

You can organize items into ordered and unordered lists.

1. Ordered list
2. Unordered list

• Ordered list

  To create an ordered list, add line items with numbers followed by periods. The numbers don’t have to be in numerical order, but the list should start with the number one.

```
1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
4. Fourth item
```

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  1. First item
  2. Second item
  3. Third item
  4. Fourth item

• Unordered list

  To create an unordered list, add dashes (-), asterisks (*), or plus signs (+) in front of line items. Indent one or more items to create a nested list.

- First item
- Second item
- Third item
    - Indented item
    - Indented item
- Fourth item

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• First item
• Second item
• Third item
  • Indented item
  • Indented item
• Fourth item

• Syntax Highlighting

  We can use single backtick ` before and after the code or syntax to highlight it i.e.

The `quick` brown fox jumps over a `lazy` dog.

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The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

• Inserting Code snippet

  To insert a code snipped we will use three backticks ``` before and after the code snippet i.e.

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def hello():
  print("Hello world")

• Inserting Link syntax

  We can insert a link using below syntax in the markdown file.

[Google](https://www.google.com)

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Google

• Inserting Image syntax

• linking image

  Image syntax is similar to that of links, only it has an exclamation !mark in front of alt text

![LCO mascot](https://learncodeonline.in/mascot.png)

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1. image (directory)

   To add an image, add an exclamation mark (!), followed by alt text in brackets, and the path or URL to the image asset in parentheses. You can optionally add a title in quotation marks after the path or URL.

   ![lCO](/mascot.png)
   

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• Table

| First Header | Second Header |
| ------------ | ------------- |
| Content cell 1 | Content cell 2 |
| Content column 1 | Content column 2 |

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• Mention

  In this method @ symbol is used to mention.

You can mention @users and @teams on GitHub. Mainly useful when submitting or commenting on bugs and issues.

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You can mention @users and @teams on GitHub. Mainly useful when submitting or commenting on bugs and issues.

• Emoji

  Make your content more expressive by using emojis. This is pretty simple😉. Just copy any emoji you like from here and paste it in your content.

😊 :blush: //emojicode

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😊